'Trivium' definitions:
Definition of 'trivium'
From: WordNet
noun
(Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
Definition of 'Trivium'
From: GCIDE
- Trivium \Triv"i*um\, n. [LL. See Trivial.]
- 1. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively. [1913 Webster]